User Guide

70 Alert component (Flash Professional only)
An Alert component uses the following skin properties to dynamically skin the buttons and
title bar:
To set the title of an Alert component to a custom movie clip symbol:
1. Create a new FLA file.
2. Create a new symbol by selecting Insert > New Symbol.
3. Set the name to TitleBackground.
4. If the advanced view is not displayed, click the Advanced button.
5. Select Export for ActionScript.
6. The identifier is automatically filled out with TitleBackground.
7. Set the AS 2.0 class to mx.skins.SkinElement.
SkinElement is a simple class that can be used for all skin elements that don’t provide their
own ActionScript implementation. It provides movement and sizing functionality for
components of version 2 of the Macromedia Component Architecture.
8. Make sure that Export in First Frame is already selected.
9. Click OK.
10. Open the new symbol for editing.
11. Use the drawing tools to create a box with a red fill and black line.
12. Set the border style to hairline.
13. Set the box, including the border, so that is positioned at (0,0) and has a width of 100 and
height of 22.
The Alert component sets the proper width of the skin as needed, but it uses the existing
height as the height of the title.
14. Click the Back button to return to the main timeline.
Property Description Default value
buttonUp
The up state of the buttons.
ButtonSkin
buttonUpEmphasized
The up state of the default button.
ButtonSkin
buttonDown
The pressed state of the buttons.
ButtonSkin
buttonDownEmphasized
The pressed state of the default button.
ButtonSkin
buttonOver
The rolled-over state of the buttons.
ButtonSkin
buttonOverEmphasized
The rolled-over state of the default
button.
ButtonSkin
titleBackground
The window title bar.
TitleBackground